"This
adventure
story features
some actual footage of the 1936 Berlin
Olympics."

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

This adventure story features some actual footage of
the
1936 Berlin
Olympics. It's about spies who steal a robot remote
control device to
be
used for navigating an airplane, and of Charlie having
to solve two
murders
while at the Berlin Olympics. It doesn't make too much
political sense
and it glorifies the police force of Berlin in a
revolting manner, but
it's a snappy film and quite entertaining.

In Honolulu a test plane with an experimental robot
remote
control
is stolen when a mechanic sneaked onto the plane
during the flight and
killed the pilot. The mechanic will land the plane
where Charlie is
fishing
with Number Two Son and he will set it on fire.
Cartwright (John
Eldredge)
invented the military device and sold a majority
partnership in his
invention
to a Mr. Hopkins (Hale).

Chan finds the mechanic murdered in his hotel room
and
notes the
last call he made was to someone in the Royal Hotel.
He thereby deduces
that the most likely suspects are those who were
residing in the Royal
Hotel: Masters (Allan Lane), Cartwright, Hughes (C.
Henry Gordon), and
Roland (Katherine DeMille). He's asked by Honolulu
Police Chief Scott
to
fly to the Berlin Olympics with Hopkins and Cartwright
and track down
the
other suspects who are going there by boat.
Incidentally, Charlie flew
there on the dirigible Hindenburg.

Pilot Dick Masters, fur-clad mystery woman Yvonne
Roland,
and the
untrustworthy Hughes, someone who shows an interest in
either
purchasing
or stealing the device, are on a boat leaving from New
York with
Olympic
athletes that include Lee Chan (Keye Luke). Lee is
going there to
compete
as a swimmer.

Masters excused himself suspiciously from the last
test
flight because
of an injury and is now going to compete as a pole
vaulter in the
Olympics.
He's accompanied by his jealous girlfriend Betty Adams
(Moore). She's
upset
because he's spending so much time with Yvonne.
Hughes, in the
meantime,
is keeping a close tab on Yvonne, even stealing a
coded radiogram she
receives.

Charlie, once in Berlin, gets help from Inspector
Strasser
(Frederick
Vogeding), as they investigate the disappearance of
Roland from the
ship.
She fled the scene and put the device in the camera
she stole from
Betty
and then placed the device in Betty's luggage.

When Charlie comes up with the device in Betty's
room, in
the hands
of a maid working for the spies, he switches the real
device for a
phony
and gives it back to the rightful owners, Hopkins and
Cartwright. When
Hopkins is jumped for what is believed to be the real
device in his
hotel
room, it turns out that Roland is behind this and that
she is working
with
the wealthy aristocrat Zaraka (Wallace). But the gang
is disappointed
to
learn that the device they took from Hopkins is a
phony.

The exciting climax to this complex plot, comes when
Lee is
kidnapped
by the Zaraka team to force Charlie to hand over the
real device.
Meanwhile,
the ruthless Hughes is also after the device and has
trailed Lee to the
kidnapper's house. Charlie goes after Lee by following
the kidnapper's
instructions and cleverly sets a trap by putting a
transmitter in the
device
so the police can follow him.